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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Heard" data-source="post: 2153030" data-attributes="member: 7280">Van's (only his family calls him Vanak) an aristocrat because he's related to the one of the 27 noble houses of Breland. His extended family are notorious meddlers (from Rurek ir'Clarn in Parliament to Haftak ir'Clarn who publishes the Sharn Inquisitive), and even his older brothers are of some note due to their accomplishments during The War. He's the youngest son of a poorer relation though, his family was certainly enough to accomodate him into the completely respectable position of a Crown agent of the Citadel but not quite enough to overlook the fact that he's always been a bit...high strung and possessing a healthy respect for himself. So his brothers went off to war to become heroic figures and inherit the family fortune and glory, and Van mostly got shuffled around in the Citadel's garrison of Sharn where his mother and father could help keep him from his more reckless endeavors. He's certainly not the dullest silver on the shelf though, so it was enough to convince his superiors to train him accordingly. He's no dullard in robes pickling strange creatures though, in fact the only real reason he's a wizard is that he understands the sense of it. If he had his druthers he'd be off in plate armor decapitating enemies with his mighty blade, only he recognizes that he'd be really really bad at it. Not that it matters, everything that he could offer the Crown is wasted in Q'barra. And now, the war is over and he won't ever have his chance for anything. He'll just live out his days, forgotten in Q'barra counting the ships that come in and the ships that leave. Nothing exciting ever happens in Q'barra except flies and thunder. Anyways, he wants to serve. He's smart but not particularly wise, especially considering that he's got a huge blind spot in not recognizing that Vanak ir'Clarn's worst enemy is himself. He blames everyone else for his troubles, even when he's smart enough to recognize how stupid that is. The worst of it is, as he's well aware, if he could only get a lucky break he might change. He loathes almost everything about Q'barra as hickish and "not Sharn or Breland." He resists the notion that anything important could happen out here. The inhabitants are at best yokels and at worst traitors - and part of the reason he's in such a fuss about being stationed here is that he's worried that someone might think that exact thing about him.</blockquote>

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